Conditions of the Shahadah
The conditions of the shahadah are 7:
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Knowledge – to understand what it means.
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Certainty – to have no doubt about anything confirmed in the Quran or Sunnah.
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Acceptance – by the tongue and the heart of whatever the Shahadah implies.
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Submission/compliance – the actual physical enactment by deeds.
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Truthfulness – to say the Shahadah sincerely, with honesty, to actually mean it.
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Sincerity – to do it solely for the sake of Allah.
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Love – to love the Shahadah and to love its implications and requirements and what it stands for.
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The second part of the Shahadah also has conditions:
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To believe in the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, and in whatever he told us and conveyed to us.
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To obey him in whatever he commanded us to do.
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To stay away from or avoid whatever he commanded us not to do.
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To follow or emulate him in our ibadah, akhlaq and way of life.
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To love him more than we love ourselves, our family and anything else in this world.
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To understand, practice and promote his Sunnah in the best way possible, without creating any chaos, enmity or harm.